Low-end phones are getting premium features

May 24, 2015 07:26 GMT  ·  By

The low-end smartphone market is starting to become a very competitive ecosystem, so device makers have to try to differentiate their models as best as they can, if they want to remain in the game.

Which brings us to a new phone by Huawei that recently leaked into the wild. The Chinese device maker has unleashed the P8 flagship not so long ago and the phone arrives with a fingerprint scanner on the back. But who’s to say low-end phones shouldn’t come equipped with the same technology?

Gizmo China has dug up information revealing the fact that Huawei is prepping a phone that’s expected to cost only $161 / €146. That’s all fine and dandy, but for this amount of money customers will be awarded a phone with a push-to-read fingerprint scanner on the back, that’s capable of supporting all network bands.

Low-end phones are getting better, fast

The company’s own VP, Wu Zhou said that these two features will become a standard for all future phones coming out of Huawei, not just premium models.

Companies like Vivo have taken up the use of iris scanners embedded in the frontal camera, fingerprint-based authentication technology is slowly becoming more affordable. So affordable that even budget phones will be able to take advantage of such a system.

For the time being, anything else related to the entry-level Huawei device remains shrouded in a veil of mystery, but once the specifications of the handset become available to us we will let you know.

Huawei is no stranger to making budget phones an the latest models from this category include the Honor Bee and Honor 4C.

We’re going to take a moment and examine their specs, particularly Honor 4C’s, because Huawei’s low-end phone with fingerprint scanner will probably feature similar hardware under the hood.

Huawei is going to expand its budget portfolio soon

The Honor Bee arrives with a 4.5-inch capacitive display with 480 x 854 pixel resolution and draws life from a 1.2GHz quad-core Spreadtrum processor complemented by a 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory. The smartphone packs a microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB).

The Honor 4C is a slightly larger affair coming with a 5-inch capacitive touchscreen display with HD (720p) resolution. In addition the phone takes advantage of a 64-bit octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 620 processor, a Mali-T450 graphics processing unit and 2GB of RAM. The phone sells for $140 / €127.

Huawei's current and upcoming low-end phones (3 Images)

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